Mikhail Lermontov Quotes

I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

Mikhail Lermontov

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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
- Music
- Think
- Talent
Not only are Feiglin's people radicals and fascists but also the bearers of severe personal disturbances, which hide behind a layer of patriotic make-up under the camouflage of the Jewish faith.

Yossi Sarid
- People
- Up
- Faith
I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

O. J. Simpson
- Mother
- Death
- Dad
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.

Mandy Patinkin
- People
- Song
- Process
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Patrick Leahy
- Up
- Law
- Stop
I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.

M. J. Rose